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SUMMARY:Celebrating Poetry Month with Clint Smith
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association of the Study of African American Life and History\, is pleased to host a program in celebration of Poetry Month with best-selling and award-winning writer Clint Smith\, author of his newly released book of poetry “Above Ground.” Join us and learn about Clint’s new collection of poetry\, his inspiration\, his creative process\, and more. \nABOUT THE BOOK: “ABOVE GROUND”\nClint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection “Above Ground” traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood\, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children\, as they discover it for the first time. There are poems that meditate on what it means to raise a family in a world filled with constant social and political tumult. “Above Ground” wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands\, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smith’s lyrical\, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children’s lives\, but through the changing world in which they are growing up—through the changing world of which we are all a part. “Above Ground” is a breathtaking collection that follows Smith’s first award-winning book of poetry\, “Counting Descent.” \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nClint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book\,“How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America\,” which was a #1 New York Times bestseller\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism\, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of the poetry collection “Counting Descent\,” which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. His writing has been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, Poetry Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and elsewhere. Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/celebrating-poetry-month-with-clint-smith/
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SUMMARY:"Building Our Communities’ Freedom Dreams" with Amanda Alexander | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Alexander\, founding executive director of the Detroit Justice Center\, is a racial justice lawyer and historian who works alongside community-based movements to end mass incarceration and build thriving and inclusive cities. She is co-host of Freedom Dreams\, an interview podcast that amplifies movement voices and explores the many paths to building a truly just future. Originally from Michigan\, Amanda has worked at the intersection of racial justice and community development in Detroit\, New York\, and South Africa for more than two decades. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series 2023 Season\nThis season\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/building-our-communities-freedom-dreams-with-amanda-alexander-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: 'Woman Without Shame' with Sandra Cisneros
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books is pleased to celebrate Women’s History Month by hosting a conversation with writer and activist Sandra Cisneros\, who is the author of “Woman Without Shame.” Join us to learn about Cisneros and her phenomenal new collections of poems\, hear the poet read two of her poems (English and Spanish)\, and more. Plus\, this is a great program to attend right before Poetry Month begins in April. \nABOUT THE BOOK: “Woman Without Shame” \nIt has been 28 years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems\, “Woman Without Shame” is a moving collection of songs\, elegies\, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory\, desire\, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros\, “Woman Without Shame” is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sandra Cisneros\nSANDRA CISNEROS is a poet\, short story writer\, novelist\, essayist\, performer and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, national and international book awards\, including the PEN America Literary Award\, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently\, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship\, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing\, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico\, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-woman-without-shame-with-sandra-cisneros/
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SUMMARY:NATO Ambassador Julianne Smith | Ford School Events
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in partnership with The Ford School is pleased to present Ambassador Julianne Smith for the 5th annual Arthur Vandenberg Lecture. \nAmbassador Smith has served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO since November 2021. Prior to her current position\, she served as a Senior Advisor to Secretary Antony Blinken at the Department of State\, and previously served as the Director of the Asia and Geopolitics Programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. \nAmbassador Smith will give brief remarks\, followed by a conversation with Weiser Diplomacy Center director John Ciorciari. \n\nAbout Julianne Smith\nAmbassador Julianne Smith assumed her position as the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO in November 2021. Prior to her current position\, she served as a senior advisor to Secretary Blinken at the Department of State. Previously\, she served as the director of the Asia and Geopolitics Programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2014-2018\, she served as the director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. \nFrom 2012-2013\, she served as the Acting National Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States. Before her post at the White House\, she served for three years as the principal director for European and NATO Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. In January 2012\, she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. \nPrior to her government service\, Ambassador Smith held a variety of positions at research institutions including the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, the German Marshall Fund\, the American Academy in Berlin\, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin. She has written extensively on transatlantic relations and European security. \nAmbassador Smith is a recipient of the Richard von Weizsäcker Fellowship at the Bosch Academy in Berlin and the Fredin Memorial Scholarship for study at the Sorbonne in Paris. A native of Michigan\, she received her BA from Xavier University and her M.A from American University. She spent a year learning German at the University of Munich. In 2017\, she received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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SUMMARY:Family Sagas of Pride and Perseverance | 'Finding Your Roots'
DESCRIPTION:Join Detroit Public TV and PBS Books on Wednesday\, March 22\, at 8 p.m. ET\, for a fascinating look at new techniques for unravelling the mysteries of African American genealogy \nNow in its ninth season\, “Finding Your Roots” stands as one of PBS and America’s most enduring and popular programs. It’s enjoyed by people from all backgrounds and ways of life. We celebrate each other’s stories\, because every family’s history has much to tell us about the history of our country. \nOn Wednesday\, March 22\, Detroit Public TV and PBS Books present a special digital event\, inspired by the work of “Finding Your Roots” host and creator\, Dr. Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, who has made genealogy a national pastime. \nWe will present a dynamic discussion of the issues and opportunities that African Americans face as they trace their histories. There is never a straight path in genealogy\, always twists and turns. But we will consider the unique challenges of these families\, as they hunt through the wreckage of slavery for records that are lost or incomplete\, searching for ancestors whose names and locations often have been changed or falsified. \nThankfully\, there are new tools\, historical and scientific\, to unlock family histories. We will present a panel of avid and talented genealogists\, who have mastered tricks and tips that will help others exploring their family’s origins. At the same time\, they relate the surprising facts and inspiring stories they discovered about their own histories. \nWe even learn something about Dr. Gates himself! \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, March 22\, at 8 p.m. ET\, at DPTV.org\, PBSBooks.org\, or Facebook Live. \nIt will be an evening of tears and triumph\, DNA and dogged research perseverance\, as we do our best to let the genealogy out of the bottle. \nPanelists\n\n Leslie C. Strong Williams: Immediate Past President\, Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society\, Detroit\, Michigan; member\, Detroit Historical Society Black Historic Sites Committee; former trustee Historical Society of Michigan. A sixth generation Michiganian\, born in Detroit\, her interest in genealogy and the preservation of African American history harkens back to her ancestor\, abolitionist and Underground Railroad Station Master William Webb. Retired museum curator and exhibitions designer.\nJazmyn Davison: Currently a stay-at-home mother who enjoys spending time with family and friends\, Jazmyn was born and raised in Mansfield\, OH\, and went on to work and serve in leadership development\, banking and in service to God. She finds joy in learning about her ancestors and believes it’s an important component in the journey of discovering who you are.\nCheryl Garnett: President and co- founder of the Washtenaw County African American Genealogical Society\, board member of Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society\, and board member of the Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County. To Cheryl\, family is everything. She is the mother of five adult children\, 17 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Fulfilling a promise to her grandmother\, she has been researching and reconstructing her family history and genealogy since 1996. She retired from the Ann Arbor VA Hospital in 2015\, after serving 32 years as the director of Occupational Therapy.\nLaJoy Y. Mosby: LaJoy begin researching her family history in the late ‘70s after viewing the TV miniseries “Roots.” She currently serves as the National President of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society\, Inc. (AAHGS). She serves as the president of the Central Maryland Chapter of AAHGS. She is also a member of several other genealogy societies\, including the National Genealogical Society\, Kentucky Genealogy Society\, Alabama Genealogy Society\, African American Genealogy Group of Kentucky and the Woodford County (KY) Historical Society.\nOmer Jean Winborn: Retired educator\, co-founder of the Washtenaw County African American Genealogy Society; vice president of Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society\, Detroit\, Michigan; and board member\, of the Washtenaw Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County.\n\nPartners\n\nWashtenaw County African American Genealogy Society\nYpsilanti District Library\nFred Hart Williams Genealogical Society (Detroit)\nAfro American Historical and Genealogical Society\nLansing Area African American Genealogical Society\n\nMichigan Genealogical Council \n\nMichigan genealogical societies\nMichigan genealogical research tools\n\nDetroit Society for Geological Research \n\n\nResources:\nDetroit Society for Genealogical Research \nMichigan eLibrary: Genealogy eResources for Kids \n\n25 Fun Things to Do with Your Friends and Family is an eBook in EBSCO’s Public Library eBook collection.  One of the activities involves interviewing grandparents to learn more about their lives.\nFamilies Through Time Ebook is a book within the EBSCO K-8 eBook collection and is designed to introduce kids to the concept of family history and traditions. There are prompts within the book to help them capture some of their own family traditions.\nMy Heritage Library Edition accesses various records throughout the world to provide more information about ancestors.  This is not designed for use by younger children; however\, middle and high school students could possibly use it to learn more about grandparents and great grandparents.\nPebbleGo offers 10 different articles on families within its Social Studies module.  This eResource is designed especially for children in grades K-2.\n\nFinding Your Roots: The Seedlings \nInspired by the popular PBS series “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.” and shot on the campus of Penn State University\, “Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings” follows 13 young people in a genetics and genealogy camp as they explore their family history and DNA ancestry with techniques never before used in an educational setting. \nTeachers\, we encourage you to download and customize the curriculum used in our Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings Genetics & Genealogy Camp! Simply fill out the form at fyrclassroom.org/curriculum/ and you will be forwarded to a Box folder where you can download the full curriculum. \nOther PBS Learning Media Resources \n\nFamily History and Genealogical Research | History Detectives This History Detectives collection of resources illustrates the research methodology for investigating genealogy and family history.\nLives of Hispanic Peoples along the Mexican Border | Teaching with Primary Sources This inquiry kit features Library of Congress sources and focuses upon the lives of Tejanos and Hispanics during the Westward expansion.\nFaces of America What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. The lesson plans and media resources based on the series address a wide range of topics including historic waves of immigration\, anti-immigrant sentiment\, family genealogy\, and state-of-the-art genetic research.\nUsing Genetic Genealogy to Solve Crimes | Secrets in Our DNA Learn how genetic testing along with traditional genealogy methods can help identify criminal suspects in this video clip from NOVA.\nGenetic Counselor Meet a genetic counselor and envision the possibilities around this in-demand science career that works to improve people’s health.\n\n\nFunding Credits\nCorporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES\, JR.\, Season Nine is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; and by The Inkwell Society and its members Jim and Susan Swartz; Hayward and Kathy Draper; Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein; Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong; and Anne Wojcicki.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/family-sagas-of-pride-and-perseverance-finding-your-roots/
CATEGORIES:Finding Your Roots National Conversation Series
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SUMMARY:The Eisendrath Symposium with Fred de Sam Lazaro | Wallace House
DESCRIPTION:Wallace House Presents Fred de Sam Lazaro\, executive director of the Under-Told Stories and correspondent for the PBS NewsHour\, as he takes a critical look at the world’s underreported events and awakens us to understand the daily concerns of far away people who increasingly affect our lives. A 1989 Michigan Journalism Fellow (later named the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship)\, de Sam Lazaro founded Under-Told Stories in 2006\, a journalism project focused on the consequences of poverty and stories about the world’s biggest challenges\, including climate\, food and water\, and human rights. In addition to producing content for news organizations\, Under-Told Stories collaborates with educators to engage students on the pressing issues of our time.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/the-eisendrath-symposium-with-fred-de-sam-lazaro-wallace-house/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: 'The Sentence' with Louise Erdrich
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with the American Indian Library Association\, is pleased to celebrate Women’s History Month by hosting a program with award-winning writer Louise Erdrich\, author of “The Sentence\,” in conversation with Allison Waukau\, vice president of the American Indian Library Association. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation and learn about Erdrich\, her new book and her creative process. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: “The Sentence”\nLouise Erdrich’s latest novel\, “The Sentence\,” asks what we owe to the living\, the dead\, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day\, but she simply won’t leave the store. Tookie\, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading “with murderous attention\,” must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief\, astonishment\, isolation\, and furious reckoning. \n“The Sentence” begins on All Souls’ Day 2019 and ends on All Souls’ Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich\, emotional and profound as anything Erdrich has written. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich\nLOUISE ERDRICH\, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa\, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry\, children’s books\, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel “The Round House” won the National Book Award for Fiction. “Love Medicine”\, and “LaRose” received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books\, a small independent bookstore. Her book\, “The Night Watchman\,” won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-the-sentence-with-louise-erdrich/
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SUMMARY:Chris Wallace in conversation with Governor Gretchen Whitmer | Wallace House
DESCRIPTION:Wallace House Presents CNN Anchor Chris Wallace and Governor Gretchen Whitmer as part of the continuing series “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press.” Join this hour-long special event with Mr. Wallace and Governor Whitmer as they discuss politics\, public service\, the media\, and the state of our democracy\, with opening remarks by the University of Michigan President Santa Ono. \nPBS will stream this event Friday\, March 10 at 8 p.m.\, 2 days after the live recording.  Learn more on OneDetroit and Wallace House. \nAbout Gov. Whitmer\nGov. Gretchen Whitmer is a lifelong Michigander who is focused on getting things done that will make a real difference in people’s lives. As governor\, she has signed over 900 bipartisan bills and four balanced\, bipartisan budgets to deliver on the kitchen-table issues\, grow the economy\, and create good-paying jobs in every region of the state. \n\nAbout Chris Wallace\nChris Wallace is an anchor for CNN and host of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?: with new episodes available weekly on HBO Max\, and featured interviews from the show airing on CNN at 7 PM ET every Sunday. Praised as an “equal opportunity inquisitor” by The Boston Globe and “an aggressive journalist\,” “sharp-edged” and “solid” by The Washington Post\, Wallace interviews CEOs and media moguls\, Hollywood legends and newsmakers across politics\, business\, world affairs\, sports and culture.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/chris-wallace-in-conversation-with-governor-gretchen-whitmer-wallace-house/
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Roots: The Science of Genealogy
DESCRIPTION:WETA’s third national conversation of this free four-part series explores how advancements in science have impacted genealogy research. Critically acclaimed\, interdisciplinary artist Thomas Allen Harris moderates this conversation with panelists including Finding Your Roots Lead Genetic Genealogist CeCe Moore\, Dr. Carla Easter from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History\, and Athina Ramphal\, a participant in the 2017 Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings genetics and genealogy camp.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/finding-your-roots-the-science-of-genealogy/
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SUMMARY:Celebrating National Reading Month: Grace Lin and Kate Messner
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books celebrates National Reading Month with Caldecott and Newbery honoree Grace Lin and bestselling author Kate Messner as they discuss their new book: “Once Upon A Book.”  This story is a modern folktale about the joy of reading. Inspired by “Alice in Wonderland\,” this book helps young readers explore their creativity on a fun adventure. Paired with vibrant illustrations\, this lyrical story invites the reader to savor each page and indulge in the power of imagination. Join us to learn insights about the book and the significance of Alice’s white rabbit.  Plus\, you will learn about how Chinese symbols and traditions are woven into the story. \nABOUT THE BOOK: Once Upon A Book\nOnce upon a time\, there was a girl. She went to a place alive with colors\, where even the morning dew was warm. Alice loves to imagine herself in the magical pages of her favorite book. So when it flaps its pages and invites her in\, she is swept away to a world of wonder and adventure\, riding camels in the desert\, swimming under the sea with colorful fish\, floating in outer space and more! But when her imaginative journey comes to an end\, she yearns for the place she loves best of all.  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Grace Lin\nGrace Lin is the recipient of the Children’s Literature Legacy Award and is the bestselling author and illustrator of over 30 books\, including “A Big Mooncake for Little Star” (a Caldecott Honor)\, “A Big Bed for Little Snow\, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” (a Newbery Honor)\, “The Year of the Dog\,” and the “Ling & Ting” series. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Massachusetts. She invites you to visit her online at www.gracelin.com. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kate Messner\nKate Messner is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 books for young readers. Her award-winning titles include picture books like “Over and Under the Snow” and “The Brilliant Deep;” novels like “Breakout and Chirp;” engaging nonfiction like “The Next “ and the “History Smashers” series; the “Ranger in Time” adventures; and the “Fergus and Zeke” easy readers. She lives on Lake Champlain and invites you to visit her at www.katemessner.com.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/celebrating-national-reading-month-grace-lin-and-kate-messner/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: 'Freewater' with Amina Luqman-Dawson
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a conversation with the 2023 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Amina Luqman-Dawson\, author of “Freewater.”  This is Luqman-Dawson’s debut novel for middle-grade students in which she creates an imaginary world in the Great Dismal Swamp’s Freewater\, pulling in and captivating the reader.  She shares her research\, provides insights into her characters\, and her thought-provoking story\, and takes readers on a fantastic adventure.  Don’t miss this incredible conversation. \nABOUT THE BOOK: “Freewater”\nWinner of the John Newbery Medal \nWinner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award  \nAn Indiebound Bestseller \nAward-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical\, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. \nUnder the cover of night\, 12-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada\, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life\, Homer knows there’s no turning back\, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines\, secret doorways\, and over a sky bridge\, the two find a secret community called Freewater\, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children\, Homer finds new friends\, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater\, he crafts a plan to find his mother and help his new home. Deeply inspiring and loosely based on the history of maroon communities in the South\, this is a striking tale of survival\, adventure\, friendship\, and courage.  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amina Luqman-Dawson\nAmina Luqman-Dawson is the author of the pictorial history book “Images of America: African Americans of Petersburg” (Arcadia Publishing) and “Freewater.” Her op-eds on race and popular culture have appeared in The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicleand more. A proud mother of a 13-year-old son\, she and her family reside in Arlington\, VA.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-freewater-with-amina-luqman-dawson/
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SUMMARY:"With Care" with Nicole Marroquin | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist\, researcher\, and teacher educator whose work explores spatial justice and Latinx history. Marroquin works with youth and communities to decenter dominant narratives and to address displacement and erasure. Her current work explores belonging through histories of student rebellions in Chicago Public Schools from 1968 to 1980. Through research and creative practice\, she aims to recover and re-present histories of Black and brown youth and women’s leadership in the struggle for justice in Chicago. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series 2023 Season\nThis season\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/with-care-with-nicole-marroquin-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
CATEGORIES:Penny Stamps
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Music as Resistance with Jonathan Abrams
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY: MUSIC AS RESISTANCE\nAUTHOR TALK: JONATHAN ABRAMS \nPBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and WTTW/Chicago PBS\, is pleased to host a program with award-winning New York Times staff writer Jonathan Abrams\, who is the author of The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop. This program is offered in connection with Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World\, which just premiered on PBS earlier this year and can be streamed at PBS.org (check your local listing). Join us to learn more about the birth of Hip Hop culture and its impact on society. \n  \nThis program is also being offered in collaboration with ASALH’s Black History Month Festival\, which is focusing on Black Resistance. The program will explore Hip Hop as music as resistance. \nABOUT THE BOOK: THE COME UP: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE RISE OF HIP HOP\nThe music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now\, fifty years later\, it’s the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century\, hip-hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artists—nearly all of them people of color from some of America’s most overlooked communities—pushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers\, while transfixing the country’s youth and reshaping fashion\, art\, and even language. \nAnd yet\, the stories of many hip-hop pioneers and their individual contributions in the pre-Internet days of mixtapes and word of mouth are rarely heard—and some are at risk of being lost forever. Now\, in The Come Up\, the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Abrams offers the most comprehensive account so far of hip-hop’s rise\, a multi-decade chronicle told in the voices of the people who made it happen. In more than three hundred interviews conducted over three years\, Abrams has captured the stories of the DJs\, executives\, producers\, and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop. Masterfully combining these voices into a seamless symphonic narrative\, Abrams traces how the genre grew out of the resourcefulness of a neglected population in the South Bronx\, and from there how it flowed into New York City’s other boroughs\, and beyond—from electrifying live gatherings\, then on to radio and vinyl\, below to the Mason-Dixon Line\, west to Los Angeles through gangster rap and G-funk\, and then across generations. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: JONATHAN ABRAMS\nJonathan Abrams is an award-winning staff reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of two previous books\, Boys Among Men and All the Pieces Matter. A graduate of the University of Southern California\, Abrams was formerly a staff writer at Bleacher Report\, Grantland\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR: ANGEL IDOWU\nAngel Idowu currently serves as the JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation Arts Correspondent for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight\, Black Voices and Latino Voices. A Chicago native\, she is also VP of Archives for the National Association of Black Journalists Chicago Chapter\, a mentor with LINK Unlimited\, a developing screenwriter\, runs her own production company\, FoomiLOLA Media\, and heads a nonprofit geared toward art education resources. . She received her Master’s in Journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. \nABOUT THE SHOW: FIGHT THE POWER\n“Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World” is an incredible narrative of struggle\, triumph and resistance that will be brought to life through the lens of an art form that has chronicled the emotions\, experiences and expressions of Black and Brown communities: Hip Hop. In the aftermath of America’s racial and political reckoning in 2020\, the perspectives and stories shared in Hip Hop are key to understanding injustice in the U.S. over the last half-century.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-music-as-resistance-with-jonathan-abrams/
CATEGORIES:ASALH
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Roots: Genealogy & The Next Generation
DESCRIPTION:Wondering what’s on the minds of youth when it comes to genealogy? Join the virtual conversation with Student Reporting Labs on Wed. Feb. 8 at 8/7c. \nThis event\, Genealogy & The Next Generation\, is the second of a 4-part National Conversation Series in connection with Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, and presents an intergenerational conversation about family trees. The conversation will be moderated by PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab alumna Sonal Prakash and feature Finding Your Roots lead genealogist Akosua E. Moore\, filmmaker and scholar Thomas Allen Harris\, and college sophomore Naima Blanco-Norberg who is delving into genealogy research. \nSeason Nine of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, will air on PBS stations nationwide on Tuesdays at 8pm ET beginning on January 3\, 2023. Tune-in as Dr. Gates and his team uncover the long-buried secrets\, hidden identities\, and lost ancestors of today’s most compelling personalities. \nTo learn more visit pbs.org/finding-your-roots \nAbout the “Finding Your Roots” National Conversation Series\nNow in its ninth season\, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, continues to be one of the most popular series in public media.  The program expertly uncovers the long-buried secrets\, hidden identities\, and lost ancestors of today’s most compelling personalities\, and explores the connections that bind us together. \nJoin us in the first few months of 2023 for a compelling series of 4 virtual conversations on topics related to genealogy – one event each month Finding Your Roots is on the air (January-April). \nLearn more about the conversation series\, and see the full schedule. \nFunding Credits:\nCorporate support for Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, Season Nine is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; and by The Inkwell Society and its members Jim and Susan Swartz; Hayward and Kathy Draper; Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein; Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong; and Anne Wojcicki.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/finding-your-roots-genealogy-the-next-generation/
CATEGORIES:Finding Your Roots National Conversation Series
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SUMMARY:“Climate Change and the Importance of the Urban Landscape” with Martha Schwartz | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:As Founding Partner of Martha Schwartz Partners\, Landscape Architects\, Martha Schwartz is a world-renowned designer. She has over 40 years of experience designing and implementing large scale masterplans\, mixed-use developments\, urban regeneration projects\, as well as civic plazas\, parks\, institutional landscapes\, corporate headquarters\, installations\, and gardens. Martha Schwartz Partners works with city leaders\, planners and builders at a strategic level so as to advocate for the inclusion of the public landscape as a means to achieve environmental\, economic and social sustainability. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series 2023 Season\nThis season\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/climate-change-and-the-importance-of-the-urban-landscape-with-martha-schwartz-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
CATEGORIES:Penny Stamps
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Zora Neale Hurston and Black History Month with Ibram X. Kendi\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY: ZORA NEALE HURSTON\nAUTHOR TALK: IBRAM X. KENDI\, PH.D. \nPBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a program with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi\, who recently adapted Zora Neale Hurston’s Magnolia Flower and soon-to-be-released The Making of Butterflies. The program is offered in connection with the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space on PBS.  Join us to gain insights into these wonderful children’s books that introduce Zora Neale Hurston folk tales to audiences of all ages. \nThis program is also being offered in collaboration with ASALH’s Black History Month Festival. \nABOUT THE BOOK: MAGNOLIA FLOWER\nBorn to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears\, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world\, she longs to connect with others\, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free\, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one’s heart. The acclaimed writer of several American classics\, Zora Neale Hurston wrote this stirring folktale brimming with poetic prose\, culture\, and history. It was first published as a short story in The Spokesman in 1925 and later in her collection Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (2020). \nTenderly retold by #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi\, Magnolia Flower is a story of a transformative and radical devotion between generations of Indigenous and Black people in America. With breathtaking illustrations by Loveis Wise\, this picture book reminds us that there is no force strong enough to stop love. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: THE MAKING OF BUTTERFLIES\nFirst Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower\, Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi\, about the origin of butterflies. The Creator wuz all finished and thru makin’ de world. \nBut soon\, the Creator finds themselves flying through the sky\, making gorgeous butterflies of every color\, shape\, and size. Find out why butterflies were made in Zora Neale Hurston’s stunning and layered African American folktale retold by #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Ibram X. Kendi and illustrated by Kah Yangni. This accessible and sizable board book is perfect for introducing the youngest of readers to the beauty of Hurston’s storytelling and will spark curiosity in children about how things in our world came to be. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi\, Ph.D.\nIbram X. Kendi is a National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His books include Antiracist Baby; Goodnight Racism; How to Be an Antiracist; and How to Raise an Antiracist. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. In 2020\, Time magazine named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He has also been awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. \nABOUT THE SHOW: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE\nRaised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville\, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance\, best remembered for her novel\, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles\, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean\, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people\, an unusual practice at the time\, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.  \nDirected by Tracy Heather Strain\, produced by Randall MacLowry and executive produced by Cameo George\, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race\, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-zora-neale-hurston-and-black-history-month-with-ibram-x-kendi/
CATEGORIES:ASALH
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SUMMARY:Charles M. Blow | Wright Museum Speakers
DESCRIPTION:Watch the livestream presentation of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History’s inaugural President Lecture Series featuring Charles Blow\, columnist for The New York Times\, political analyst and author of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” and “The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto.” Blow brings insight and a robust discussion on Martin Luther King Jr.\, race and culture.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/charles-m-blow-wright-museum-speakers/
CATEGORIES:Wright Museum
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SUMMARY:"Cultural Exchange Rate - A Case Study" with Tania El Khoury | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury examines the universal\, never-ending story of migration through a family diary of the borders\, and the recognition that the cruelest of borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life. \n“Cultural Exchange Rate” is an interactive live art project in which El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in border villages between Lebanon and Syria. El Khoury collects recorded interviews with her late grandmother\, the discovery of lost relatives in México City\, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship through war survival\, valueless currency collection\, and a river that disregards both colonial and national borders. The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family’s secret boxes to explore sounds\, images\, and textures that trace more than a century of border crossings. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series 2023 Season\nThis season\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/cultural-exchange-rate-a-case-study-with-tania-el-khoury-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
CATEGORIES:Penny Stamps
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SUMMARY:'The Half-Life of Freedom: Notes on Race\, Media and Democracy' with Jelani Cobb | Ford School Events
DESCRIPTION:Wallace House\, in partnership with PBS Books\, presents journalist and scholar Jelani Cobb\, in conversation with Ford School Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes\, as part of the continuing series: “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press.” \nJoin Cobb\, dean of Columbia Journalism School and staff writer for The New Yorker\, as he examines race and the historic challenges to democracy\, the impact of the media\, and how these obstacles frame and inform our current moment. \nStream here or on the PBS Books Facebook page. \nAbout Jelani Cobb\nJelani Cobb is the dean of Columbia Journalism School and a staff writer at The New Yorker\, where he writes about race\, politics\, history and culture. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film “Whose Vote Counts” and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019. \nHe is the author of “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress” and “To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic.” He is the editor or co-editor of several volumes\, including “The Matter of Black Lives\,” a collection of The New Yorker’s writings on race\, and “The Essential Kerner Commission Report.” He is the producer or co-producer on a number of documentaries\, including “Lincoln’s Dilemma\,” “Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union” and “Policing the Police.” \nDr. Cobb was educated at Jamaica High School in Queens\, New York; Howard University\, where he earned a B.A. in English; and Rutgers University\, where he completed his M.A. and doctorate in American history in 2003. He received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Fulbright Foundation and the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/the-half-life-of-freedom-notes-on-race-media-and-democracy-with-jelani-cobb/
CATEGORIES:Ford School Events
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SUMMARY:Documenting Family History in the Digital Age | 'Finding Your Roots' National Conversation Series
DESCRIPTION: \nPBS Books is pleased to partner with WETA to present Documenting Family History in the Digital Age\, the first  of the “Finding Your Roots” National Conversation Series\, Moderated by the creator of the Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling\, Thomas Allen Harris\, who you may know from Family Pictures USA! \nStream here Wednesday\, January 18th at 8/7c \nTwo members of the Finding Your Roots production team will join as panelists: Lead Genealogist Kimberly N. Morgan and Series Producer Natalia Warchol. Kimberly and Natalia will provide perspectives and insights into how the show is created\, and all the research that goes into telling the story of each guest’s family history. \nIn addition\, Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society executive board member Taneya Y. Koonce will join the panel to help share how people watching from home can safeguard\, organize and share their family documents. Taneya is a genealogy enthusiast with more than 20 years of professional expertise in information science\, research\, and information organization. \nSeason Nine of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, will air on PBS stations nationwide on Tuesdays at 8pm ET beginning on January 3\, 2023. Tune-in as Dr. Gates and his team uncover the long-buried secrets\, hidden identities\, and lost ancestors of today’s most compelling personalities. \nTo learn more visit pbs.org/finding-your-roots \nAbout the “Finding Your Roots” National Conversation Series\nNow in its ninth season\, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, continues to be one of the most popular series in public media.  The program expertly uncovers the long-buried secrets\, hidden identities\, and lost ancestors of today’s most compelling personalities\, and explores the connections that bind us together. \nJoin us in the first few months of 2023 for a compelling series of 4 virtual conversations on topics related to genealogy – one event each month Finding Your Roots is on the air (January-April). \nLearn more about the conversation series\, and see the full schedule. \nFunding Credits:\nCorporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES\, JR.\, Season Nine is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; and by The Inkwell Society and its members Jim and Susan Swartz; Hayward and Kathy Draper; Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein; Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong; and Anne Wojcicki.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/documenting-family-history-in-the-digital-age/
CATEGORIES:Finding Your Roots National Conversation Series
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SUMMARY:"The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King\, Jr." with Jeh Johnson\, Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security | Ford School Events
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day\, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson reflects on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and what that means to him as a fellow Morehouse Man. Following his remarks\, he’ll sit down for a conversation with Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes alongside Ford School faculty experts to reflect on his work with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense through questions submitted from the Ford School community on policy issues ranging from immigration to civil liberties. \nAbout Jeh Johnson\nJeh Johnson is a partner in the law firm of Paul\, Weiss\, Rifkind\, Wharton & Garrison\, LLP\, who in public life was Secretary of Homeland Security (2013-2017)\, General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2009-2012)\, General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1998-2001)\, and an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York (1989-1991). As Secretary of Homeland Security\, Johnson was the head of the third largest cabinet department of the U.S. government\, consisting of 230\,000 personnel and 22 components\, including TSA\, Customs and Border Protection\, Immigration and Customs Services\, U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services\, the Coast Guard\, the Secret Service\, and FEMA. \nLearn More>>
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/jeh-johnson-former-u-s-secretary-of-homeland-security-ford-school-events/
CATEGORIES:Ford School Events
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SUMMARY:Genevieve West and Monica Miller | Trailblazing Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a program about Zora Neale Hurston’s latest book You Don’t Know Us Negroes & Other Essays with co-editor Genevieve West\, Ph.D. in conversation with Monica Miller\, Ph.D.\, in connection with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE.  Co-editor Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. will welcome viewers to the program on January 12 at 8pm ET| 5pm PT. \nJoin us and learn about this important collection of Zora Neale Hurston’s work that spans more than three decades and how it came to be released in 2022.  Also\, you’ll hear a bit about another essay collection by Hurston–Hitting A Straight Lick with A Crooked Stick. \nDon’t miss AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE premieres on January 17 at 9pm ET on PBS\, check your local listing or stream at pbs.org. \nABOUT THE BOOK: YOU DON’T KNOW US NEGROES & OTHER ESSAYS \nYou Don’t Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world’s most celebrated writers\, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance\, Montgomery bus boycott\, desegregation of the military\, and school integration\, Hurston’s writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. Collectively\, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people’s inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving\, Black people re-interpreted every aspect of American culture—”modif[ying] the language\, mode of food preparation\, practice of medicine\, and most certainly religion.” White supremacy prevents the world from seeing or completely recognizing Black people in their full humanity and Hurston made it her job to lift the veil and reveal the heart and soul of the race. These pages reflect Hurston as the controversial figure she was—someone who stated that feminism is a mirage and that the integration of schools did not necessarily improve the education of Black students. Also covered is the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum\, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing her lover\, a white doctor. Demonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer’s work\, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays is an invaluable chronicle of a writer’s development and a window into her world and mind. \nABOUT THE EDITOR: GENEVIEVE WEST\, Ph.D.\nGenevieve West\, Ph.D. is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Language\, Culture\, and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University\, the nation’s largest public institution primarily for women\, where she teaches African American\, American\, and women’s literatures and serves as an Affiliate Faculty in the Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies program.  Her scholarship takes intersectional\, historically situated\, archival approaches to the literary productions of American women writers. She has published on Zora Neale Hurston in journals such as African American Review\, AmerikaStudien/American Studies\, Receptions\, and Women’s Studies. Her book\, Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture (2005) examines the ebb and flow in Hurston’s reputation by accounting for her marginalization beginning in the 1930s and her recovery in the years following her death in 1960.  Recently\, West edited a volume of Hurston’s Harlem Renaissance short fiction\, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (2020)\, which made available for scholars and popular readers alike a number of “lost” stories. With Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, she co-edited the first comprehensive collection of Hurston’s essays and reportage\, You Don’t Know Us Negroes (2022).  This volume\, too\, restored a number of previously unpublished works to Hurston’s oeuvre.  Her essay ”Subversions of Boasian Anthropology in Zora Neale Hurston’s Great Migration Fiction and Ethnography” appeared this year in African American Literature in Transition\, 1920-1930.  Her essay on “lost” works by Marita Bonner is forthcoming in African American Review. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR: MONICA L. MILLER\, PH.D.\nMonica L. Miller is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana Studies and English at Barnard College\, Columbia University. A specialist in contemporary African American and Afro-diasporic literature and cultural studies\, she is the author of the award-winning book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.  A grantee from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars\, she is a frequent commentator in the media and arts worlds and teaches and writes about black literature\, art\, and performance\, fashion cultures\, and contemporary Black European culture and politics \nABOUT THE EDITOR: HENRY LOUIS GATES\, JR.\nHenry Louis Gates\, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker\, literary scholar\, journalist\, cultural critic\, and institution builder\, Professor Gates’s most recent books are Stony the Road: Reconstruction\, White Supremacy\, and the Rise of Jim Crow and The Black Church: This Is Our Story\, This Is Our Song. He has also produced and hosted more than 20 documentary films\, most recently The Black Church on PBS and Black Art: In the Absence of Light for HBO. Finding Your Roots\, his groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series\, is now in its eighth season on PBS. It has been called “one of the deepest and wisest series ever on television\,” leveraging “the inherent entertainment capacity of the medium to educate millions of Americans about the histories and cultures of our nation and the world.” The recipient of 56 honorary degrees and numerous prizes\, Professor Gates was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981\, and in 1998\, he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. He was named to Time’s25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997\, to Ebony’s Power 150 list in 2009\, and to Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012. \nABOUT THE FILM: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE \nRaised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville\, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance\, best remembered for her novel\, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles\, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean\, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people\, an unusual practice at the time\, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.  \nDirected by Tracy Heather Strain\, produced by Randall MacLowry and executive produced by Cameo George\, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race\, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/genevieve-west-and-monica-miller-trailblazing-women-writers/
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SUMMARY:Masterpiece: All Creatures Great and Small with Ben Vanstone
DESCRIPTION:The Magic of Masterpiece \nJoin PBS Books for a conversation with Ben Vanstone\, Writer and Executive Producer of MASTERPIECE's All Creatures Great and Small.  \nAs the writer and Executive Producer\, Vanstone will discuss and examine the adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small\, the timeless story written by James Herriot. Season 3 premieres Sunday\, January 8\, 2023\, 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS. All Creatures Great and Small returns for a third season filled with compassion\, trials\, and triumph in the Yorkshire Dales. Tag along on adventures with Siegfried Farnon\, Tristan Farnon\, Mrs. Hall\, and more as James and Helen prepare for a wedding! Will Tristan earn Siegfried's approval? How will James fair with local farmers? More adventures\, more antics\, and more animals to come in Season 3! \nRunning 6 episodes\, Season 3 of All Creatures Great and Small is slated to premiere January 8\, 2023\, on MASTERPIECE on PBS. Season 2 will be available to view on-air\, online\, and on the PBS Video app. Season 2 aired January 8 – February 19\, 2021 on MASTERPIECE on PBS.\n  \nABOUT BEN VANSTONE \nBen has created and Executive Produced All Creatures Great & Small for MASTERPIECE on PBS. He is currently writing and show-running Season 4. Prior to that\, Ben wrote and was Co-Executive Producer on The English Game for Netflix. Ben created and is show-running the series adaptation of Amor Towle's novel A Gentleman in Moscow for eOne/Showtime starring Ewan McGregor\, which is currently in production. 
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/masterpiece-all-creatures-great-and-small-with-ben-vanstone/
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SUMMARY:Highlights of Exploring Our Nation: Ken Burns
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books is pleased to host re-release  the highlights of our digital program with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns\, author of Our America: A Photographic History. This stunning book explores the greatest human experiment through 261 images between 1839 and 2019 representing all 50 states including portraits\, landscapes\, and event photographs. This stunning book makes the perfect holiday gift to anyone who is curious and loves our nation and Ken Burns documentaries. Learn insights from the Ken Burns as his reflections on the United States as he shares insights into making the book.  \nABOUT THE BOOK\nFrom one of our most treasured filmmakers\, a pictorial history of America—a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’ favorite photographs\, with an introduction by Burns\, and an essay by longtime MoMA photography curator Sarah Hermanson Meister. \nBurns has been making documentaries about American history for more than four decades\, using images to vividly re-create our struggles and successes as a nation and a people. As much as anyone alive today\, he understands the soul of our country. \nIn Our America\, Burns has assembled the images that\, for him\, best embody nearly two hundred years of the American experiment\, taken by some of our most renowned photographers and by others who worked in obscurity. We see America’s vast natural beauty as well as its dynamic cities and communities. There are striking images of war and civil conflict\, and of communities drawing together across lines of race and class. Our greatest leaders appear alongside regular folks living their everyday lives. The photos talk to one another across boundaries and decades and\, taken together\, they capture the impossibly rich and diverse perspectives and places that comprise the American experience. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKen Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981\, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made\, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; Prohibition; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; The Vietnam War; Country Music; and\, most recently\, The U.S. and the Holocaust. \nFuture film projects include The American Buffalo\, Leonardo da Vinci\, The American Revolution\, Emancipation to Exodus\, and LBJ & the Great Society\, among others. \nKen’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards\, including sixteen Emmy Awards\, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations; and in September of 2008\, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards\, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/highlights-exploring-our-nation-ken-burns/
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SUMMARY:Trailblazing Women Writers Talk: Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with legendary Julie Andrews and award winning writer\, Emma Walton Hamilton\, authors of  “The First Notes: The Story of Do Re Mi.”  The book introduces readers to the remarkable story of the development of written music\, and speaks to the beauty of music and the power of perseverance through the story of Guido d’Arezzo from one thousand years ago.  For anyone who loves music\, this book is the perfect children holiday gift celebrating curiosity\, perseverance\, and creativity.  Join us for a fun evening with a mother-daughter creative team! \nABOUT THE BOOK\nA stunning new picture book from beloved icon Julie Andrews and her daughter\, Emma Walton Hamilton\, that introduces readers to the remarkable story of the development of written music\, and speaks to the beauty of music and the power of perseverance. Featuring the illustrated lyrics to “Do-Re-Mi” and an author’s note about Julie Andrews’s connection to the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein song! \nCenturies ago\, a young Italian monk named Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually\, he created the musical scale\, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do…one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time\, Guido’s music couldn’t be silenced. His discovery remains the foundation for learning music today\, and inspired the famous song “Do-Re-Mi\,” which Julie Andrews sang in the beloved movie The Sound of Music. \nThis richly illustrated picture book from beloved icon Julie Andrews and her daughter\, bestselling author Emma Walton Hamilton\, introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d’Arezzo’s development of musical notation. In addition to the lyrics of “Do-Re-Mi” illustrated in full color\, the backmatter includes an author’s note\, extensive historical notes\, and a glossary. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS\nJulie Andrews’s legendary career encompasses the Broadway and London stages\, as well as multiple films\, television shows\, album releases\, concert tours\, directing assignments\, and the world of children’s publishing. She was married to film director Blake Edwards for 41 years\, and the couple have 5 children\, 10 grandchildren\, and 3 great-grandchildren. \nEmma Walton Hamilton is an award-winning writer\, producer and arts educator. Together with her mother\, Julie Andrews\, she has written over thirty books for children and young adults\, including the New York Times bestselling Very Fairy Princess series. Emma is on the faculty of Stony Brook University’s MFA in Creative Writing.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/trailblazing-women-writers-talk-julie-andrews-emma-walton-hamilton/
CATEGORIES:Trailblazing Women Series
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SUMMARY:'The Inherent Politics of Design' with Studio Safar | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Studio Safar is a design agency and publisher with offices in Beirut and\, now\, Tiohtia:ke (Montréal). The studio adopts an experimental approach to design. Evoked by its name\, the studio is concerned with notions of communication across cultural and linguistic barriers. Projects span different media and design frameworks such as communication strategies\, publications\, visual identities\, exhibitions and sets\, and websites. Most of the work services the extended cultural sector\, and is engaged in social and political discourse. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2022 Season\nThis winter\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/the-inherent-politics-of-design-with-studio-safar-the-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
CATEGORIES:Penny Stamps
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SUMMARY:The Future of Work: Author Talk with Johnny C. Taylor\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:FUTURE OF WORK SERIES: Today’s workforce and workplace have undergone massive upheaval. The Detroit Economic Club in partnership with Detroit Public Television presents a Future of Work Series that will examine the multi-faceted trends and issues every company faces.\n\nIn this time of global upheaval\, the greatest challenge business leaders face is access to human capital. As a global leader on the future of employment\, culture and leadership\, Johnny C. Taylor\, Jr. is a sought-after voice on all matters affecting work\, workers\, and the workplace. Mr. Taylor will discuss the complexities of the modern workplace amid a pandemic\, fluctuating unemployment\, economic uncertainty and a heightened urgency around inclusion and diversity.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/the-future-of-work-author-talk-with-johnny-c-taylor-jr/
CATEGORIES:DEC Speaker Events,Future of Work
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SUMMARY:'Exploring Our Nation' with Ken Burns | Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns\, author of Our America: A Photographic History. This stunning book explores the greatest human experiment through 261 images between 1839 and 2019 representing all 50 states including portraits\, landscapes\, and event photographs. This stunning book makes the perfect holiday gift to anyone who is curious and loves our nation and Ken Burns documentaries. Learn insights from the Ken Burns as his reflections on the United States as he shares insights into making the book and his \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK\nFrom one of our most treasured filmmakers\, a pictorial history of America—a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’ favorite photographs\, with an introduction by Burns\, and an essay by longtime MoMA photography curator Sarah Hermanson Meister. \nBurns has been making documentaries about American history for more than four decades\, using images to vividly re-create our struggles and successes as a nation and a people. As much as anyone alive today\, he understands the soul of our country. \nIn Our America\, Burns has assembled the images that\, for him\, best embody nearly two hundred years of the American experiment\, taken by some of our most renowned photographers and by others who worked in obscurity. We see America’s vast natural beauty as well as its dynamic cities and communities. There are striking images of war and civil conflict\, and of communities drawing together across lines of race and class. Our greatest leaders appear alongside regular folks living their everyday lives. The photos talk to one another across boundaries and decades and\, taken together\, they capture the impossibly rich and diverse perspectives and places that comprise the American experience. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKen Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981\, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made\, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; Prohibition; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; The Vietnam War; Country Music; and\, most recently\, The U.S. and the Holocaust. \nFuture film projects include The American Buffalo\, Leonardo da Vinci\, The American Revolution\, Emancipation to Exodus\, and LBJ & the Great Society\, among others. \nKen’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards\, including sixteen Emmy Awards\, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations; and in September of 2008\, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards\, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/exploring-our-nation-ken-burns/
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SUMMARY:Trailblazing Women Writers Talk: Imani Perry
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a conversation with award-winning Imani Perry\, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation\, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction. For anyone who enjoys learning about how nation\, this author shares thought-provoking stories\, facts\, and personal narratives and takes readers on a fantastic journey throughout the South to understand our nation. Imani shares about her work with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, including her role in Making Black America: Through The Grapevine\, and the important work of Zora Neale Hurston\, whose new documentary will air on PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in January 2023.  Don’t miss this incredible conversation. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nAn essential\, surprising journey through the history\, rituals\, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America \nWe all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War\, Gone with the Wind\, the Ku Klux Klan\, plantations\, football\, Jim Crow\, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies\, dispositions\, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America\, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South\, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole. \nThis is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours\, deep dives\, and surprising encounters with places and people. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty\, sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize so much of Southern life. \nWeaving together stories of immigrant communities\, contemporary artists\, exploitative opportunists\, enslaved peoples\, unsung heroes\, her own ancestors\, and her lived experiences\, Imani Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity\, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States\, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nImani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University where she also teaches in Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Law and Public Affairs and Jazz Studies. She has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D in the history of American civilization from Harvard University. Perry is the author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation\, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction\, and Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry\, winner of the Bograd-Weld Biography Prize of 2019 from the Pen America Foundation. She is also the author of Breathe: A Letter to My Sons\, Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation\, and May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem\, which was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Nonfiction. Perry\, a native of Birmingham\, Alabama\, who grew up in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and Chicago\, lives outside of Philadelphia with her two sons.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/trailblazing-women-writers-talk-imani-perry/
CATEGORIES:Trailblazing Women Series
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SUMMARY:'To Be Heard: Public Art Interventions' with Tatyana Fazlalizadeh | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn based artist working primarily in oil painting\, public art and multimedia installations. Her work is rooted in community engagement and the public sphere. She makes site specific work that considers how people\, particularly women\, queer folks\, and Black and brown people\, experience race and gender within their surrounding environments – from the sidewalk to retail stores\, and from church to college campuses. \nCurrently\, Fazlalizadeh is Artist in Residence at the UM Institute for the Humanities where her exhibition Pressed Against My Own Glass is on view. During her residency\, she will produce a public mural To Be Heard as a community engagement project in order to hear and amplify the voices of marginalized groups on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus\, exploring how others engage with them based upon their identities. \nFazlalizadeh will discuss her methodology and cover her most well known works such as Stop Telling Women to Smile\, the international street art series addressing gender based street harassment\, and America is Black\, a series of portrait and text pieces that explore and amplify the stories of non-White people in the United States. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2022 Season\nThis winter\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/to-be-heard-public-art-interventions-with-tatyana-fazlalizadeh-the-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
CATEGORIES:Penny Stamps
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